Hon. S.Clinton Hastings 1814-1893

HASTINGS, BRADT

Posted By: Iowa Old Press
Date: 3/11/2008 at 08:28:43

Judge S.C. Hastings, millionaire and pioneer, died on Saturday, in his 79th year, in San Francisco. He was born at Watertown in 1814, but went west to attend school. He and Henry Ward Beecher were students at Lawrenceburg, Ind. He then settled in Iowa and studied law. He was the first supreme judge of the Hawkeye state, and took Iowa into the union with him in the twenty-ninth congress. He was married to Miss Arzela A. Bradt of Iowa. He went to California early in the fifties, and was the first supreme judge of that state. He accumulated a large estate, which he divided among his children about four years ago, reserving only enough to assure him of maintenance. His fortune was estimated at one and a half millions.

~source: Watertown Herald,
Saturday, February 25, 1893

~transcriber note: Judge S. Clinton Hastings was born in Jefferson co. NY in 1814. He came to Burlington, Des Moines Co. in 1837 and served in the Iowa Territorial General Assemblies. He served on the Iowa Supreme Court as Chief Justice for one year from January 26, 1848, to January 14, 1849. He also was the first representative in the U.S. Congress from the state of Iowa

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